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SoftBank's record-breaking $100bn Vision Fund to close soon
By Eduardo Marziale, Andreas Gerckens and Davide Martelozzo
Tech visionary and billionaire Masayoshi Son, head of the Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation SoftBank Group, has announced his company is creating a $100bn Private Equity fund devoted to tech investments – the largest of its kind so far. With high-profile investors joining the effort, the fund already has a first deal lined up: A 25% stake in chip designer ARM Holdings is set to change hands.
SoftBank Corp. is the third largest in Japan, after Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial only. Headquartered in Tokyo and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section (TSEFS), the group was founded in 1981 and, since then, has always been managed by its founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, the man that lost $70bn in one day when the dot.com bubble burst. He succeeded in rebuilding his company from the scratch. The conglomate he still leads now has operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design, and other businesses.
Between 2009 and 2014, SoftBank's market capitalization increased by 557%. This allowed the group to pursue a wide range of investments, starting from the acquisition DramaFever in 2015, followed by a $1Bn investment in the Korean e-commerce website Coupang and a rebuying of 14.2% of its shares, valued $4.4Bn, to arrive at September 2016, when the Group announced the acquisition of the British chip designer ARM Holdings for more than $32 billion, its biggest deal ever. On October 14, 2016, SoftBankGroup announced the establishment of the biggest tech investment fund in the world, dubbed "Vision Fund", and after meeting with then U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in December, SoftBank's CEO announced the investment of $50bn in the United States toward businesses, creating 50.000 new U.S. jobs.
The Fund's original set up is the partnership of SoftBankGroup and the Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), committing to invest in the fund $25bn and $45bn, respectively, over the next 5 years which is also the investment deadline. Given the $100bn, the remaining $30bn will come from major international investors. Among them appear Apple, which announced a $1bn investment in the already oversubscribed Vision Fund on January 4, 2017, and also other tech giants such as the Chinese producer of hardware Foxconn, Qualcomm, an American semiconductor producer, and Oracle's founder Larry Ellison.
It was revealed that also Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is in advanced talks to invest $15bn in SoftBank's tech fund. Despite initial rumors of an almost exclusive startup focus and promises to Donald Trump in this respect, spectators expect that a significant portion of the fund will be devoted to large investments in private and public markets. With the acquisition of Fortress Investment Group in February, SoftBank ensured a team of professionals with experience in private equity that will be vital for the management of the new tech fund, even if the asset manager is set to remain an independent enterprise.
With the closing of the fund drawing near, news on first investments are surfacing. Most prominently, the fund will take over a 25% stake in UK chipmaker ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $8bn. This is in line with Mr Son's remark that fund investments will typically be minority stakes between 20 and 40%, giving the fund substantial influence, but keeping existing owners or founders in the driving seat. ARM was only acquired by SoftBank itself in mid-2016 at a similar valuation, in hopes of participating in the breakthrough of the Internet of Things (IoT).
According to the Financial Times, the deal is largely put together to secure the contribution to the fund by Mubadala, but it illustrates a potential path ahead for the fund: The first investments will likely be into technology companies recently acquired by SoftBank in anticipation of the fund's closing. In particular, two US technology investments recently made by SoftBank are said to be offered to the new investment vehicle and could change hands already this year: A stake in the ownership of the satellite communications upstart OneWeb and the established satellite operator Intelsat, recently acquired by SoftBank for a combined of 2.7bn, as well as SoftBank's new 3bn stake in the office sharing company WeWork.
Further down the road, the SoftBank Vision Fund will likely close a number of deals, many of them directly in the US tech industry. If Son delivers on his ambitious investment pledges to Donald Trump, the fund is likely the main means to do so: SoftBank itself already carries $128bn of debt – after a host of acquisitions, the company's financial firepower appears to be exhausted, but Mr Son's aspiration of assembling a diversified, global technology conglomerate is not quite so.
Hence, the SoftBank Vision Fund will probably never become a traditional, independent Private Equity fund, with only size setting it apart from similar ventures. Instead, it will be a powerful financial tool for Son and SoftBank to drive technology development particularly in the US and deliver on their long-term strategic vision.
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Bob will be playing one final event on the PGA tour this week before flying home from the states. He will then be home for a few weeks before returning overseas to tee it up in the PGA Championship beginning on May 20th.
Bob seals Masters return!
Glencruitten's Bob MacIntyre capped a stunning Masters debut with a birdie on the 18th to ensure that he will return to Augusta in 2022.
The 24-year-old from Oban finished tied 12th on -2 for the week after carding a level-par 72 on the final day. It was another thrilling round in which he showed his fighting spirit once again towards the end, recovering from back-to-back bogeys on the 16th and 17th to hole a 13ft birdie putt on one of the most famous greens in golf.
"This is a place where you want to be competing every year," MacIntyre said afterwards. "It was my first time this year, and I obviously put up a decent fight, but once you come here, you don't want to miss another one.
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For older breast cancer survivors, cognitive problems may be linked to inflammation, study shows
Jason Millman
Women over 60 make up the majority of the nearly 4 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.
Previous studies of cognition have focused largely on younger survivors in the short term.
Self-reports of cognitive issues among older survivors were related to higher levels of an inflammatory marker in the body called CRP.
Scientists are still trying to understand why many breast cancer survivors experience troubling cognitive problems for years after treatment. Inflammation is one possible culprit. A long-term study of older breast cancer survivors recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and co-led by UCLA researchers adds important evidence to that potential link.
Higher levels of an inflammatory marker known as C-reactive protein, or CRP, were related to reports of cognitive issues among older survivors in the new study.
"Blood tests for CRP are used routinely in the clinic to determine risk of heart disease. Our study suggests this common test for inflammation might also be an indicator of risk for cognitive problems reported by breast cancer survivors," said lead study author Judith Carroll, an associate professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and a member of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The study is one of the first long-term efforts to examine the potential link between chronic inflammation and cognition in breast cancer survivors 60 and older, who make up a majority of the nearly 4 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. Previous research has focused largely on younger women and women immediately after therapy, making it difficult to draw conclusions about CRP's role in long-term cognitive problems among older breast cancer survivors.
For the study, teams of researchers from around the country talked to, and obtained blood samples from, hundreds of breast cancer survivors and women without cancer up to six times over the course of five years. The study was motivated by hearing from survivors that cognitive problems are one of their major worries.
Cognition was evaluated through a commonly used questionnaire that assessed how the women perceived their ability to remember things like names and directions, to concentrate, and to perform other activities in their everyday lives. The researchers found that higher CRP levels among survivors were predictive of lower reported cognitive function. There was no similar relationship between CRP levels and reported cognition in the women who had not had cancer.
"Cognitive issues affect women's daily lives years after completing treatment, and their reports of their own ability to complete tasks and remember things was the strongest indicator of problems in this study," said co–senior author Dr. Jeanne Mandelblatt, a professor of oncology at Georgetown University who headed the study.
"Being able to test for levels of inflammation at the same time that cognition was being rigorously evaluated gave the team a potential window into the biology underlying cognitive concerns," said Elizabeth C. Breen, a professor emerita of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA Cousins Center and co–senior study author.
The older survivors' cognitive performance, as measured by standardized neuropsychological tests, did not show a link with CRP. The researchers said this may indicate that the women are more sensitive to differences in their everyday cognitive function and that their self-reports highlight changes that other tests miss.
The authors said their study supports the need for research on whether interventions that can lower inflammation — including increased physical activity, better sleep and anti-inflammatory medications — may prevent or reduce cognitive concerns in older breast cancer survivors.
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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl;

import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.utils.SecuritySupport;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

/**
 * Commonly used constants.
 *
 * @xerces.internal
 *
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 *
 * @version $Id: Constants.java,v 1.14 2010-11-01 04:39:40 joehw Exp $
 */
public final class Constants {

    //
    // Constants
    //
    // Schema Types:
    public static final String NS_XMLSCHEMA = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema".intern();
    public static final String NS_DTD = "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml".intern();

    // Schema features
    public static final String SUN_SCHEMA_FEATURE_PREFIX = "http://java.sun.com/xml/schema/features/";
    public static final String SUN_REPORT_IGNORED_ELEMENT_CONTENT_WHITESPACE = "report-ignored-element-content-whitespace";

    //stax properties

    public static final String ZEPHYR_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "http://java.sun.com/xml/stream/properties/" ;
    public static final String STAX_PROPERTIES = "stax-properties" ;
    public static final String STAX_ENTITY_RESOLVER_PROPERTY = "internal/stax-entity-resolver";
    public static final String STAX_REPORT_CDATA_EVENT = "report-cdata-event";
    public static final String READER_IN_DEFINED_STATE = ZEPHYR_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "reader-in-defined-state" ;
    public static final String ADD_NAMESPACE_DECL_AS_ATTRIBUTE = "add-namespacedecl-as-attrbiute";
    public static final String ESCAPE_CHARACTERS = "escapeCharacters";
    public static final String REUSE_INSTANCE = "reuse-instance" ;

    //DOM properties
    public static final String SUN_DOM_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "http://java.sun.com/xml/dom/properties/" ;
    public static final String SUN_DOM_ANCESTOR_CHECCK = "ancestor-check";

    /**
     * If true, ignore DOCTYPE declaration as if it wasn't present at all.
     * Note that this is a violation of the XML recommendation.
     * The full property name is prefixed by {@link #ZEPHYR_PROPERTY_PREFIX}.
     */
    public static final String IGNORE_EXTERNAL_DTD = "ignore-external-dtd";

    // sax features

    /** SAX feature prefix ("http://xml.org/sax/features/"). */
    public static final String SAX_FEATURE_PREFIX = "http://xml.org/sax/features/";

    public static final String NAMESPACES_FEATURE = "namespaces";

    /** Namespace prefixes feature ("namespace-prefixes"). */
    public static final String NAMESPACE_PREFIXES_FEATURE = "namespace-prefixes";

    /** String interning feature ("string-interning"). */
    public static final String STRING_INTERNING_FEATURE = "string-interning";

    /** Validation feature ("validation"). */
    public static final String VALIDATION_FEATURE = "validation";

    /** External general entities feature ("external-general-entities "). */
    public static final String EXTERNAL_GENERAL_ENTITIES_FEATURE = "external-general-entities";

    /** External parameter entities feature ("external-parameter-entities "). */
    public static final String EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITIES_FEATURE = "external-parameter-entities";

    /** Lexical handler parameter entities feature ("lexical-handler/parameter-entities"). */
    public static final String LEXICAL_HANDLER_PARAMETER_ENTITIES_FEATURE = "lexical-handler/parameter-entities";

    /** Is standalone feature ("is-standalone"). */
    public static final String IS_STANDALONE_FEATURE = "is-standalone";

    /** Resolve DTD URIs feature ("resolve-dtd-uris"). */
    public static final String RESOLVE_DTD_URIS_FEATURE = "resolve-dtd-uris";

    /** Use Attributes2 feature ("use-attributes2"). */
    public static final String USE_ATTRIBUTES2_FEATURE = "use-attributes2";

    /** Use Locator2 feature ("use-locator2"). */
    public static final String USE_LOCATOR2_FEATURE = "use-locator2";

    /** Use EntityResolver2 feature ("use-entity-resolver2"). */
    public static final String USE_ENTITY_RESOLVER2_FEATURE = "use-entity-resolver2";

    /** Unicode normalization checking feature ("unicode-normalization-checking"). */
    public static final String UNICODE_NORMALIZATION_CHECKING_FEATURE = "unicode-normalization-checking";

    /** xmlns URIs feature ("xmlns-uris"). */
    public static final String XMLNS_URIS_FEATURE = "xmlns-uris";

    /** XML 1.1 feature ("xml-1.1"). */
    public static final String XML_11_FEATURE = "xml-1.1";

    /** Allow unparsed entity and notation declaration events to be sent after the end DTD event ("allow-dtd-events-after-endDTD") */
    public static final String ALLOW_DTD_EVENTS_AFTER_ENDDTD_FEATURE = "allow-dtd-events-after-endDTD";

    // sax properties

    /** SAX property prefix ("http://xml.org/sax/properties/"). */
    public static final String SAX_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "http://xml.org/sax/properties/";

    /** Declaration handler property ("declaration-handler"). */
    public static final String DECLARATION_HANDLER_PROPERTY = "declaration-handler";

    /** Lexical handler property ("lexical-handler"). */
    public static final String LEXICAL_HANDLER_PROPERTY = "lexical-handler";

    /** DOM node property ("dom-node"). */
    public static final String DOM_NODE_PROPERTY = "dom-node";

    /** XML string property ("xml-string"). */
    public static final String XML_STRING_PROPERTY = "xml-string";

    public static final String FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING = "http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing";

    // Oracle Feature:
    /**
     *
Use Service Mechanism

     *
     *

     *

     * {@code true} instruct an object to use service mechanism to
     * find a service implementation. This is the default behavior.
     *

     *

     * {@code false} instruct an object to skip service mechanism and
     * use the default implementation for that service.
     *

     *

     */
    public static final String ORACLE_FEATURE_SERVICE_MECHANISM = "http://www.oracle.com/feature/use-service-mechanism";

    /** Document XML version property ("document-xml-version"). */
    public static final String DOCUMENT_XML_VERSION_PROPERTY = "document-xml-version";

    //
    // JAXP properties
    //

    /** JAXP property prefix ("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/"). */
    public static final String JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX =
        "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/";

    /** JAXP schemaSource property: when used internally may include DTD sources (DOM) */
    public static final String SCHEMA_SOURCE = "schemaSource";

    /** JAXP schemaSource language: when used internally may include DTD namespace (DOM) */
    public static final String SCHEMA_LANGUAGE = "schemaLanguage";

    /** JAXP Standard property prefix ("http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/"). */
    public static final String JAXPAPI_PROPERTY_PREFIX =
        "http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/";

    /** Oracle JAXP property prefix ("http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/"). */
    public static final String ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX =
        "http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/";

    public static final String XML_SECURITY_PROPERTY_MANAGER =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "xmlSecurityPropertyManager";

    //System Properties corresponding to ACCESS_EXTERNAL_* properties
    public static final String SP_ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD = "javax.xml.accessExternalDTD";
    public static final String SP_ACCESS_EXTERNAL_SCHEMA = "javax.xml.accessExternalSchema";
    //all access keyword
    public static final String ACCESS_EXTERNAL_ALL = "all";

    /**
     * Default value when FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING (FSP) is set to true
     */
    public static final String EXTERNAL_ACCESS_DEFAULT_FSP = "";

    /**
     * FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING (FSP) is true by default
     */
    public static final String EXTERNAL_ACCESS_DEFAULT = ACCESS_EXTERNAL_ALL;

    /**
     * Check if we're in jdk8 or above
     */
    public static final boolean IS_JDK8_OR_ABOVE = isJavaVersionAtLeast(8);

    //
    // Implementation limits: corresponding System Properties of the above
    // API properties
    //
    /**
     * JDK entity expansion limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "entityExpansionLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String JDK_ENTITY_EXPANSION_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "entityExpansionLimit";

    /**
     * JDK element attribute limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "elementAttributeLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String JDK_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTE_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "elementAttributeLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maxOccur limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "maxOccurLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String JDK_MAX_OCCUR_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "maxOccurLimit";

    /**
     * JDK total entity size limit
     */
    public static final String JDK_TOTAL_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "totalEntitySizeLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maximum general entity size limit
     */
    public static final String JDK_GENERAL_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "maxGeneralEntitySizeLimit";
    /**
     * JDK maximum parameter entity size limit
     */
    public static final String JDK_PARAMETER_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "maxParameterEntitySizeLimit";
    /**
     * JDK maximum XML name limit
     */
    public static final String JDK_XML_NAME_LIMIT =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "maxXMLNameLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maxElementDepth limit
     */
    public static final String JDK_MAX_ELEMENT_DEPTH =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "maxElementDepth";

    /**
     * JDK property to allow printing out information from the limit analyzer
     */
    public static final String JDK_ENTITY_COUNT_INFO =
            ORACLE_JAXP_PROPERTY_PREFIX + "getEntityCountInfo";

    //
    // Implementation limits: API properties
    //
    /**
     * JDK entity expansion limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "entityExpansionLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String SP_ENTITY_EXPANSION_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.entityExpansionLimit";

    /**
     * JDK element attribute limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "elementAttributeLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String SP_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTE_LIMIT =  "jdk.xml.elementAttributeLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maxOccur limit; Note that the existing system property
     * "maxOccurLimit" with no prefix is still observed
     */
    public static final String SP_MAX_OCCUR_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.maxOccurLimit";

    /**
     * JDK total entity size limit
     */
    public static final String SP_TOTAL_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.totalEntitySizeLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maximum general entity size limit
     */
    public static final String SP_GENERAL_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.maxGeneralEntitySizeLimit";
    /**
     * JDK maximum parameter entity size limit
     */
    public static final String SP_PARAMETER_ENTITY_SIZE_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.maxParameterEntitySizeLimit";
    /**
     * JDK maximum XML name limit
     */
    public static final String SP_XML_NAME_LIMIT = "jdk.xml.maxXMLNameLimit";

    /**
     * JDK maxElementDepth limit
     */
    public static final String SP_MAX_ELEMENT_DEPTH = "jdk.xml.maxElementDepth";

    //legacy System Properties
    public final static String ENTITY_EXPANSION_LIMIT = "entityExpansionLimit";
    public static final String ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTE_LIMIT = "elementAttributeLimit" ;
    public final static String MAX_OCCUR_LIMIT = "maxOccurLimit";

    /**
     * A string "yes" that can be used for properties such as getEntityCountInfo
     */
    public static final String JDK_YES = "yes";

    //
    // DOM features
    //

    /** Comments feature ("include-comments"). */
    public static final String INCLUDE_COMMENTS_FEATURE = "include-comments";

    /** Create cdata nodes feature ("create-cdata-nodes"). */
    public static final String CREATE_CDATA_NODES_FEATURE = "create-cdata-nodes";

    /** Feature id: load as infoset. */
    public static final String LOAD_AS_INFOSET = "load-as-infoset";

    //
    // Constants: DOM Level 3 feature ids
    //

    public static final String DOM_CANONICAL_FORM = "canonical-form";
    public static final String DOM_CDATA_SECTIONS ="cdata-sections";

    public static final String DOM_COMMENTS = "comments";

    // REVISIT: this feature seems to have no effect for Xerces

    public static final String DOM_CHARSET_OVERRIDES_XML_ENCODING =
    "charset-overrides-xml-encoding";

    public static final String DOM_DATATYPE_NORMALIZATION = "datatype-normalization";

    public static final String DOM_ENTITIES = "entities";
    public static final String DOM_INFOSET = "infoset";
    public static final String DOM_NAMESPACES = "namespaces";
    public static final String DOM_NAMESPACE_DECLARATIONS = "namespace-declarations";
    public static final String DOM_SUPPORTED_MEDIATYPES_ONLY =
        "supported-media-types-only";

    public static final String DOM_VALIDATE_IF_SCHEMA = "validate-if-schema";
    public static final String DOM_VALIDATE = "validate";
    public static final String DOM_ELEMENT_CONTENT_WHITESPACE =
        "element-content-whitespace";

    // DOM Level 3 features defined in Core:
    public static final String DOM_DISCARD_DEFAULT_CONTENT = "discard-default-content";
    public static final String DOM_NORMALIZE_CHARACTERS    = "normalize-characters";
    public static final String DOM_CHECK_CHAR_NORMALIZATION  = "check-character-normalization";
    public static final String DOM_WELLFORMED  = "well-formed";
    public static final String DOM_SPLIT_CDATA = "split-cdata-sections";

    // Load and Save
    public static final String DOM_FORMAT_PRETTY_PRINT = "format-pretty-print";
    public static final String DOM_XMLDECL = "xml-declaration";
    public static final String DOM_UNKNOWNCHARS = "unknown-characters";
    public static final String DOM_CERTIFIED =  "certified";
    public static final String DOM_DISALLOW_DOCTYPE =  "disallow-doctype";
    public static final String DOM_IGNORE_UNKNOWN_CHARACTER_DENORMALIZATIONS =  "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations";

    // DOM Properties
    public static final String DOM_RESOURCE_RESOLVER = "resource-resolver";
    public static final String DOM_ERROR_HANDLER = "error-handler";
    public static final String DOM_SCHEMA_TYPE = "schema-type";
    public static final String DOM_SCHEMA_LOCATION = "schema-location";
    public static final String DOM_ANCESTOR_CHECCK = "ancestor-check";
    // XSModel
    public static final String DOM_PSVI = "psvi";

    // xerces features

    /** Xerces features prefix ("http://apache.org/xml/features/"). */
    public static final String XERCES_FEATURE_PREFIX = "http://apache.org/xml/features/";

    /** Schema validation feature ("validation/schema"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE = "validation/schema";

    /** Expose schema normalized values */
    public static final String SCHEMA_NORMALIZED_VALUE = "validation/schema/normalized-value";

    /** Send schema default value via characters() */
    public static final String SCHEMA_ELEMENT_DEFAULT = "validation/schema/element-default";

    /** Schema full constraint checking ("validation/schema-full-checking"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_FULL_CHECKING = "validation/schema-full-checking";

    /** Augment Post-Schema-Validation-Infoset */
    public static final String SCHEMA_AUGMENT_PSVI = "validation/schema/augment-psvi";

    /** Dynamic validation feature ("validation/dynamic"). */
    public static final String DYNAMIC_VALIDATION_FEATURE = "validation/dynamic";

    /** Warn on duplicate attribute declaration feature ("validation/warn-on-duplicate-attdef"). */
    public static final String WARN_ON_DUPLICATE_ATTDEF_FEATURE = "validation/warn-on-duplicate-attdef";

    /** Warn on undeclared element feature ("validation/warn-on-undeclared-elemdef"). */
    public static final String WARN_ON_UNDECLARED_ELEMDEF_FEATURE = "validation/warn-on-undeclared-elemdef";

    /** Warn on duplicate entity declaration feature ("warn-on-duplicate-entitydef"). */
    public static final String WARN_ON_DUPLICATE_ENTITYDEF_FEATURE = "warn-on-duplicate-entitydef";

    /** Allow Java encoding names feature ("allow-java-encodings"). */
    public static final String ALLOW_JAVA_ENCODINGS_FEATURE = "allow-java-encodings";

    /** Disallow DOCTYPE declaration feature ("disallow-doctype-decl"). */
    public static final String DISALLOW_DOCTYPE_DECL_FEATURE = "disallow-doctype-decl";

    /** Continue after fatal error feature ("continue-after-fatal-error"). */
    public static final String CONTINUE_AFTER_FATAL_ERROR_FEATURE = "continue-after-fatal-error";

    /** Load dtd grammar when nonvalidating feature ("nonvalidating/load-dtd-grammar"). */
    public static final String LOAD_DTD_GRAMMAR_FEATURE = "nonvalidating/load-dtd-grammar";

    /** Load external dtd when nonvalidating feature ("nonvalidating/load-external-dtd"). */
    public static final String LOAD_EXTERNAL_DTD_FEATURE = "nonvalidating/load-external-dtd";

    /** Defer node expansion feature ("dom/defer-node-expansion"). */
    public static final String DEFER_NODE_EXPANSION_FEATURE = "dom/defer-node-expansion";

    /** Create entity reference nodes feature ("dom/create-entity-ref-nodes"). */
    public static final String CREATE_ENTITY_REF_NODES_FEATURE = "dom/create-entity-ref-nodes";

    /** Include ignorable whitespace feature ("dom/include-ignorable-whitespace"). */
    public static final String INCLUDE_IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE = "dom/include-ignorable-whitespace";

    /** Default attribute values feature ("validation/default-attribute-values"). */
    public static final String DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_FEATURE = "validation/default-attribute-values";

    /** Validate content models feature ("validation/validate-content-models"). */
    public static final String VALIDATE_CONTENT_MODELS_FEATURE = "validation/validate-content-models";

    /** Validate datatypes feature ("validation/validate-datatypes"). */
    public static final String VALIDATE_DATATYPES_FEATURE = "validation/validate-datatypes";

    /** Balance syntax trees feature ("validation/balance-syntax-trees"). */
    public static final String BALANCE_SYNTAX_TREES = "validation/balance-syntax-trees";

    /** Notify character references feature (scanner/notify-char-refs"). */
    public static final String NOTIFY_CHAR_REFS_FEATURE = "scanner/notify-char-refs";

    /** Notify built-in (&amp;, etc.) references feature (scanner/notify-builtin-refs"). */
    public static final String NOTIFY_BUILTIN_REFS_FEATURE = "scanner/notify-builtin-refs";

    /** Standard URI conformant feature ("standard-uri-conformant"). */
    public static final String STANDARD_URI_CONFORMANT_FEATURE = "standard-uri-conformant";

    /** Generate synthetic annotations feature ("generate-synthetic-annotations"). */
    public static final String GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_ANNOTATIONS_FEATURE = "generate-synthetic-annotations";

    /** Validate annotations feature ("validate-annotations"). */
    public static final String VALIDATE_ANNOTATIONS_FEATURE = "validate-annotations";

        /** Honour all schemaLocations feature ("honour-all-schemaLocations"). */
    public static final String HONOUR_ALL_SCHEMALOCATIONS_FEATURE = "honour-all-schemaLocations";

    /** Namespace growth feature ("namespace-growth"). */
    public static final String NAMESPACE_GROWTH_FEATURE = "namespace-growth";

    /** Tolerate duplicates feature ("internal/tolerate-duplicates"). */
    public static final String TOLERATE_DUPLICATES_FEATURE = "internal/tolerate-duplicates";

    /** XInclude processing feature ("xinclude"). */
    public static final String XINCLUDE_FEATURE = "xinclude";

    /** XInclude fixup base URIs feature ("xinclude/fixup-base-uris"). */
    public static final String XINCLUDE_FIXUP_BASE_URIS_FEATURE = "xinclude/fixup-base-uris";

    /** XInclude fixup language feature ("xinclude/fixup-language"). */
    public static final String XINCLUDE_FIXUP_LANGUAGE_FEATURE = "xinclude/fixup-language";

    /**
     * Internal feature. When set to true the schema validator will only use
     * schema components from the grammar pool provided.
     */
    public static final String USE_GRAMMAR_POOL_ONLY_FEATURE = "internal/validation/schema/use-grammar-pool-only";

    /** Internal performance related feature:
     * false - the parser settings (features/properties) have not changed between 2 parses
     * true - the parser settings have changed between 2 parses
     * NOTE: this feature should only be set by the parser configuration.
     */
    public static final String PARSER_SETTINGS = "internal/parser-settings";

    /** Feature to make XML Processor XInclude Aware */
    public static final String XINCLUDE_AWARE = "xinclude-aware";

    /** Ignore xsi:schemaLocation and xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation. */
    public static final String IGNORE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_HINTS = "validation/schema/ignore-schema-location-hints";

    /**
     * When true, the schema processor will change characters events
     * to ignorableWhitespaces events, when characters are expected to
     * only contain ignorable whitespaces.
     */
    public static final String CHANGE_IGNORABLE_CHARACTERS_INTO_IGNORABLE_WHITESPACES =
        "validation/change-ignorable-characters-into-ignorable-whitespaces";

    // xerces properties

    /** Xerces properties prefix ("http://apache.org/xml/properties/"). */
    public static final String XERCES_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "http://apache.org/xml/properties/";

    /** Current element node property ("dom/current-element-node"). */
    public static final String CURRENT_ELEMENT_NODE_PROPERTY = "dom/current-element-node";

    /** Document class name property ("dom/document-class-name"). */
    public static final String DOCUMENT_CLASS_NAME_PROPERTY = "dom/document-class-name";

    /** Symbol table property ("internal/symbol-table"). */
    public static final String SYMBOL_TABLE_PROPERTY = "internal/symbol-table";

    /** Error reporter property ("internal/error-reporter"). */
    public static final String ERROR_REPORTER_PROPERTY = "internal/error-reporter";

    /** Error handler property ("internal/error-handler"). */
    public static final String ERROR_HANDLER_PROPERTY = "internal/error-handler";

    /** XInclude handler property ("internal/xinclude-handler"). */
    public static final String XINCLUDE_HANDLER_PROPERTY = "internal/xinclude-handler";

    /** XPointer handler property ("internal/xpointer-handler"). */
    public static final String XPOINTER_HANDLER_PROPERTY = "internal/xpointer-handler";

    /** Entity manager property ("internal/entity-manager"). */
    public static final String ENTITY_MANAGER_PROPERTY = "internal/entity-manager";
    /** Input buffer size property ("input-buffer-size"). */
    public static final String BUFFER_SIZE_PROPERTY = "input-buffer-size";

    /** Security manager property ("security-manager"). */
    public static final String SECURITY_MANAGER_PROPERTY = "security-manager";

    /** Locale property ("locale"). */
    public static final String LOCALE_PROPERTY = "locale";

    /** property identifier: security manager. */
    public static final String SECURITY_MANAGER =
        Constants.XERCES_PROPERTY_PREFIX + Constants.SECURITY_MANAGER_PROPERTY;

    public static final String ENTITY_RESOLVER_PROPERTY = "internal/entity-resolver";

    /** Grammar pool property ("internal/grammar-pool"). */
    public static final String XMLGRAMMAR_POOL_PROPERTY = "internal/grammar-pool";

    /** Datatype validator factory ("internal/datatype-validator-factory"). */
    public static final String DATATYPE_VALIDATOR_FACTORY_PROPERTY = "internal/datatype-validator-factory";

    /** Document scanner property ("internal/document-scanner"). */
    public static final String DOCUMENT_SCANNER_PROPERTY = "internal/document-scanner";

    /** DTD scanner property ("internal/dtd-scanner"). */
    public static final String DTD_SCANNER_PROPERTY = "internal/dtd-scanner";

    /** DTD processor property ("internal/dtd-processor"). */
    public static final String DTD_PROCESSOR_PROPERTY = "internal/dtd-processor";

    /** Validator property ("internal/validator"). */
    public static final String VALIDATOR_PROPERTY = "internal/validator";

    /** Validator property ("internal/validator/dtd"). */
    public static final String DTD_VALIDATOR_PROPERTY = "internal/validator/dtd";

    /** Validator property ("internal/validator/schema"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_VALIDATOR_PROPERTY = "internal/validator/schema";

    /** No namespace schema location property ("schema/external-schemaLocation"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_LOCATION = "schema/external-schemaLocation";

    /** Schema location property ("schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_NONS_LOCATION = "schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation";

    /** Namespace binder property ("internal/namespace-binder"). */
    public static final String NAMESPACE_BINDER_PROPERTY = "internal/namespace-binder";

    /** Namespace context property ("internal/namespace-context"). */
    public static final String NAMESPACE_CONTEXT_PROPERTY = "internal/namespace-context";

    /** Validation manager property ("internal/validation-manager"). */
    public static final String VALIDATION_MANAGER_PROPERTY = "internal/validation-manager";

    /** XPointer Schema property ("xpointer-schema"). */
    public static final String XPOINTER_SCHEMA_PROPERTY = "xpointer-schema";

    /** Schema element declaration for the root element in a document ("internal/validation/schema/dv-factory"). */
    public static final String SCHEMA_DV_FACTORY_PROPERTY = "internal/validation/schema/dv-factory";

    // general constants

    /** Element PSVI is stored in augmentations using string "ELEMENT_PSVI" */
    public final static String ELEMENT_PSVI = "ELEMENT_PSVI";

    /** Attribute PSVI is stored in augmentations using string "ATTRIBUTE_PSVI" */
    public final static String ATTRIBUTE_PSVI = "ATTRIBUTE_PSVI";

    /**
     * Boolean indicating whether an attribute is declared in the DTD is stored
     * in augmentations using the string "ATTRIBUTE_DECLARED". The absence of this
     * augmentation indicates that the attribute was not declared in the DTD.
     */
    public final static String ATTRIBUTE_DECLARED = "ATTRIBUTE_DECLARED";

    /**
     * {@link org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo} associated with current element/attribute
     * is stored in augmentations using this string as the key.
     *
     * This will ultimately controls {@link com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractDOMParser}
     * regarding what object the DOM will return from
     * {@link org.w3c.dom.Attr#getSchemaTypeInfo()} and
     * {@link org.w3c.dom.Element#getSchemaTypeInfo()} and
     */
    public final static String TYPEINFO = "org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo";

    /**
     * Whether an attribute is an id or not is stored in augmentations
     * using this string as the key. The value is {@link Boolean#TRUE}
     * or {@link Boolean#FALSE}.
     *
     * This will ultimately controls {@link com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractDOMParser}
     * about whether it will mark an attribute as ID or not.
     */
    public final static String ID_ATTRIBUTE = "ID_ATTRIBUTE";

    // XML version constants

    /**
     * Boolean indicating whether an entity referenced in the document has
     * not been read is stored in augmentations using the string "ENTITY_SKIPPED".
     * The absence of this augmentation indicates that the entity had a
     * declaration and was expanded.
     */
    public final static String ENTITY_SKIPPED = "ENTITY_SKIPPED";

    /**
     * Boolean indicating whether a character is a probable white space
     * character (ch <= 0x20) that was the replacement text of a character
     * reference is stored in augmentations using the string "CHAR_REF_PROBABLE_WS".
     * The absence of this augmentation indicates that the character is not
     * probable white space and/or was not included from a character reference.
     */
    public final static String CHAR_REF_PROBABLE_WS = "CHAR_REF_PROBABLE_WS";

    /** Boolean indicating if this entity is the last opened entity.
     *
     *@see com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager#endEntity()
     *@see com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl#endEntity()
     *@see com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl#endEntity()
     */
    public final static String LAST_ENTITY = "LAST_ENTITY";

    // XML version constants
    public final static short XML_VERSION_ERROR = -1;
    public final static short XML_VERSION_1_0 = 1;
    public final static short XML_VERSION_1_1 = 2;

    // DOM related constants
    public final static String ANONYMOUS_TYPE_NAMESPACE =
        "http://apache.org/xml/xmlschema/1.0/anonymousTypes";

    // Constant to enable Schema 1.1 support
    public final static boolean SCHEMA_1_1_SUPPORT = false;
    public final static short SCHEMA_VERSION_1_0          = 1;
    public final static short SCHEMA_VERSION_1_0_EXTENDED = 2;

    // private

    /** SAX features. */
    private static final String[] fgSAXFeatures = {
            NAMESPACES_FEATURE,
            NAMESPACE_PREFIXES_FEATURE,
            STRING_INTERNING_FEATURE,
            VALIDATION_FEATURE,
            EXTERNAL_GENERAL_ENTITIES_FEATURE,
            EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITIES_FEATURE,
    };

    /** SAX properties. */
    private static final String[] fgSAXProperties = {
            DECLARATION_HANDLER_PROPERTY,
            LEXICAL_HANDLER_PROPERTY,
            DOM_NODE_PROPERTY,
            XML_STRING_PROPERTY,
    };

    /** Xerces features. */
    private static final String[] fgXercesFeatures = {

        SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE,
        SCHEMA_FULL_CHECKING,
        DYNAMIC_VALIDATION_FEATURE,
        WARN_ON_DUPLICATE_ATTDEF_FEATURE,
        WARN_ON_UNDECLARED_ELEMDEF_FEATURE,
        ALLOW_JAVA_ENCODINGS_FEATURE,
        CONTINUE_AFTER_FATAL_ERROR_FEATURE,
        LOAD_DTD_GRAMMAR_FEATURE,
        LOAD_EXTERNAL_DTD_FEATURE,
        //DEFER_NODE_EXPANSION_FEATURE,
        CREATE_ENTITY_REF_NODES_FEATURE,
        XINCLUDE_AWARE,
        INCLUDE_IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE,
        //GRAMMAR_ACCESS_FEATURE,
        DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_FEATURE,
        VALIDATE_CONTENT_MODELS_FEATURE,
        VALIDATE_DATATYPES_FEATURE,
        BALANCE_SYNTAX_TREES,
        NOTIFY_CHAR_REFS_FEATURE,
        NOTIFY_BUILTIN_REFS_FEATURE,
        DISALLOW_DOCTYPE_DECL_FEATURE,
        STANDARD_URI_CONFORMANT_FEATURE,
        GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_ANNOTATIONS_FEATURE,
        VALIDATE_ANNOTATIONS_FEATURE,
        HONOUR_ALL_SCHEMALOCATIONS_FEATURE,
        XINCLUDE_FEATURE,
        XINCLUDE_FIXUP_BASE_URIS_FEATURE,
        XINCLUDE_FIXUP_LANGUAGE_FEATURE,
        NAMESPACE_GROWTH_FEATURE,
        TOLERATE_DUPLICATES_FEATURE,
    };

    /** Xerces properties. */
    private static final String[] fgXercesProperties = {
            CURRENT_ELEMENT_NODE_PROPERTY,
            DOCUMENT_CLASS_NAME_PROPERTY,
            SYMBOL_TABLE_PROPERTY,
            ERROR_HANDLER_PROPERTY,
            ERROR_REPORTER_PROPERTY,
            ENTITY_MANAGER_PROPERTY,
            ENTITY_RESOLVER_PROPERTY,
            XMLGRAMMAR_POOL_PROPERTY,
            DATATYPE_VALIDATOR_FACTORY_PROPERTY,
            DOCUMENT_SCANNER_PROPERTY,
            DTD_SCANNER_PROPERTY,
            VALIDATOR_PROPERTY,
            SCHEMA_LOCATION,
            SCHEMA_NONS_LOCATION,
            VALIDATION_MANAGER_PROPERTY,
            BUFFER_SIZE_PROPERTY,
            SECURITY_MANAGER_PROPERTY,
            LOCALE_PROPERTY,
            SCHEMA_DV_FACTORY_PROPERTY,
    };

    /** Empty enumeration. */
    private static final Enumeration fgEmptyEnumeration = new ArrayEnumeration(new Object[] {});

    //
    // Constructors
    //

    /** This class cannot be instantiated. */
    private Constants() {}

    //
    // Public methods
    //

    // sax

    /** Returns an enumeration of the SAX features. */
    public static Enumeration getSAXFeatures() {
        return fgSAXFeatures.length > 0
        ? new ArrayEnumeration(fgSAXFeatures) : fgEmptyEnumeration;
    } // getSAXFeatures():Enumeration

    /** Returns an enumeration of the SAX properties. */
    public static Enumeration getSAXProperties() {
        return fgSAXProperties.length > 0
        ? new ArrayEnumeration(fgSAXProperties) : fgEmptyEnumeration;
    } // getSAXProperties():Enumeration

    // xerces

    /** Returns an enumeration of the Xerces features. */
    public static Enumeration getXercesFeatures() {
        return fgXercesFeatures.length > 0
        ? new ArrayEnumeration(fgXercesFeatures) : fgEmptyEnumeration;
    } // getXercesFeatures():Enumeration

    /** Returns an enumeration of the Xerces properties. */
    public static Enumeration getXercesProperties() {
        return fgXercesProperties.length > 0
        ? new ArrayEnumeration(fgXercesProperties) : fgEmptyEnumeration;
    } // getXercesProperties():Enumeration

    /*
     * Check the version of the current JDK against that specified in the
     * parameter
     *
     * There is a proposal to change the java version string to:
     * MAJOR.MINOR.FU.CPU.PSU-BUILDNUMBER_BUGIDNUMBER_OPTIONAL
     * This method would work with both the current format and that proposed
     *
     * @param compareTo a JDK version to be compared to
     * @return true if the current version is the same or above that represented
     * by the parameter
     */
    public static boolean isJavaVersionAtLeast(int compareTo) {
        String javaVersion = SecuritySupport.getSystemProperty("java.version");
        String versions[] = javaVersion.split("\\.", 3);
        if (Integer.parseInt(versions[0]) >= compareTo ||
            Integer.parseInt(versions[1]) >= compareTo) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    //
    // Classes
    //

    /**
     * An array enumeration.
     *
     * @author Andy Clark, IBM
     */
    static class ArrayEnumeration
    implements Enumeration {

        //
        // Data
        //

        /** Array. */
        private Object[] array;

        /** Index. */
        private int index;

        //
        // Constructors
        //

        /** Constructs an array enumeration. */
        public ArrayEnumeration(Object[] array) {
            this.array = array;
        } // <init>(Object[])

        //
        // Enumeration methods
        //

        /**
         * Tests if this enumeration contains more elements.
         *
         * @return  true if this enumeration contains more elements;
         *          false otherwise.
         * @since   JDK1.0
         */
        public boolean hasMoreElements() {
            return index < array.length;
        } // hasMoreElement():boolean

        /**
         * Returns the next element of this enumeration.
         *
         * @return     the next element of this enumeration.
         * @exception  NoSuchElementException  if no more elements exist.
         * @since      JDK1.0
         */
        public Object nextElement() {
            if (index < array.length) {
                return array[index++];
            }
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        } // nextElement():Object

    } // class ArrayEnumeration

    //
    // MAIN
    //

    /** Prints all of the constants to standard output. */
    public static void main(String[] argv) {

        print("SAX features:", SAX_FEATURE_PREFIX, fgSAXFeatures);
        print("SAX properties:", SAX_PROPERTY_PREFIX, fgSAXProperties);
        print("Xerces features:", XERCES_FEATURE_PREFIX, fgXercesFeatures);
        print("Xerces properties:", XERCES_PROPERTY_PREFIX, fgXercesProperties);

    } // main(String[])

    /** Prints a list of features/properties. */
    private static void print(String header, String prefix, Object[] array) {
        System.out.print(header);
        if (array.length > 0) {
            System.out.println();
            for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
                System.out.print("  ");
                System.out.print(prefix);
                System.out.println(array[i]);
            }
        }
        else {
            System.out.println(" none.");
        }
    } // print(String,String,Object[])

} // class Constants

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Adorable FDNY Engine 239 mascot no fan of vaccine mandates, warns 'almost half' of NYC firefighters are facing layoffs
Adorable FDNY Engine 239 mascot no fan of vaccine mandates, warns 'almost half' of NYC firefighters are facing layoffs
November 1, 2021 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Print Article
FDNY piglet mascot shares warning that New York could lose half its firefighters because of vaccine mandate
Penny the teacup piglet, who is the adorable mascot for FDNY Engine 239 and an Instagram star that lives at a Brooklyn firehouse, shared a flyer that warned New York City could lose half of its firefighters due to the November 1 vaccine mandate in the city.
In bold red lettering, the flyer states, "Attention NYC Residents: Did you know almost half of the FDNY is about to get laid off because of the mandates? How will this affect YOU?"
"The NYC Fire Department responds to almost 600,000 fire incidents each year. That is 1,635 incidents PER DAY," the flyer informed New Yorkers, according to the Daily Mail. "Every month 606 of your fellow New Yorkers are INJURED at fires. The majority of all fire and medical calls that take place each day are in COMMUNITIES OF COLOR."
"The city is planning on closing firehouses WHERE YOU LIVE. There will be 3,500 less firefighters protecting the city starting November 1st," it added. "What does this mean? If you have to call 911 for your family member having a heart attack, or your home starting to burn down, the Fire Department WON'T BE ABLE TO COME."
"We've served you the entire pandemic and we want to keep serving you! Call your elected officials, call the local news, let them know you stand with us," the flyer concluded.
The media is claiming that in excess of 70 percent of the FDNY's 17,300 firefighting staff have received at least one COVID shot as of Oct. 29. What it doesn't say is that a number of those who are vaccinated are reportedly standing with those who are not in solidarity against the mandate.
Penny's account has over 12,000 followers and is believed to be run by her human FDNY firefighter Darren Harris. He has since deleted the post and he insists that he is not an anti-vaxxer.
"I'm vaccinated and understand the importance of the shot," Harris told Rolling Stone via an Instagram message. "I just don't want any firehouses shut down."
"I'd rather talk about [Penny's] book," the firefighter said. "I'm so sorry."
Normally, Penny's account posts cute photos of her eating ice cream, painting with her snout, and engaging with the community and children.
Ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Monday deadline, 26 New York firehouses have been forced to shut down because firefighters are refusing to get the jab.
According to the Uniformed Firefighters Association, six stations have closed down in Manhattan, nine in Brooklyn, three in Queens, four in the Bronx, and four in Staten Island due to "no manpower."
Hundreds of New York City firefighters engaged in a sick-out on Friday instead of bending the knee to de Blasio's mandate.
(Video Credit: Global News)
Unvaccinated city employees who received their first and second shots after the mandate was announced on October 20 were offered a $500 bonus as an incentive to get those shots. Individuals who come to work Monday that have proof they've received a shot over the weekend won't be put on unpaid leave.
De Blasio pleaded with unvaccinated police officers as well during the NYPD's annual Medal Day ceremony to get vaccinated. He's now beginning to belatedly realize that a massive manpower shortage of police, firefighters, and EMS workers could spell catastrophe for public safety.
The leftist mayor declared, "Today, we honored people who made us safer. By getting vaccinated we're making the city safer."
Following the ceremony, de Blasio took his message to the eager press outside of the Police Academy in Queens, "My message to all city employees who are not yet vaccinated is: We care about you. We care about your health and your families' health."
"We care about the health of the people we serve and come in contact with every day," he disingenuously told the Daily News.
If de Blasio thought his statements and incentives would unite New Yorkers over the jab, he was sorely disappointed. Protests and warnings are all over the city and up to 40 percent of firehouses could close down. There could also be up to 150 fewer ambulances a day in service over the mandate.
Protestors who were fired for being unvaxx'd are standing tall in front of de Blasio's house. pic.twitter.com/AjsEzGhPxZ
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) October 29, 2021
.@FDNY Ladder 149 in Dyker Heights #Brooklyn was closed today due to Mayor de Blasio's overreaching vaccine mandate. If he doesn't reverse course, the city will lose first responders and put New Yorkers in more danger. pic.twitter.com/jVo1WUVkgM
— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) October 30, 2021
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AFI Fest Review: By the Sea Is Angelina Jolie's Raw Soul
Fred Topel November 6, 2015 2 min read
I didn't love By the Sea but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. Any time you get to see a filmmaker's soul on display, if that doesn't intrigue you enough for two hours, you're missing out.
Roland (Brad Pitt) and Vanessa (Angelina Jolie Pitt) are an unhappily married couple who spend some time at a seaside hotel. Next door is a newlywed couple (Melanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud). Vanessa becomes fixated on them and Roland joins in in the hopes of reconnecting with his wife.
I love Jolie as a director, but as the screenwriter, and not based on historical events, these are her words she's giving to her own husband to say. That's gotta mean something. Even if they are as happy a couple as they seem, and this is Jolie's rabbit hole/guilt trip about what if she were stuck in a loveless marriage, that's heavy to act it out with her husband. This is their Eyes Wide Shut.
She has Roland say that Vanessa "resists happiness." What a profound way to discuss depression. To be fair, Vanessa gets her share of verbal tongue-lashings out too. Pitt also speaks a lo of French in this, if that's something the ladies might be interested in.
The love scenes are very sensual. We see a lot of Laurent and Poupaud, and all from the same angle because that's Vanessa's view of them. The consistent angle has an impact when it's shown repeatedly and we're not allowed any other perspective. It also says something that there's a scene where Jolie is topless in a bathtub, but I'm totally drawn to her expressive eyes. Jolie directed and performed this shot, so she knew what she was playing with in regards to screen position and foreground focus.
The cinematography is beautiful. In addition to the perspective angle (which must have been carefully crafted since they'd be locked into it for the whole movie), shots of the couples on a boat at sea are gorgeous. The location doesn't hurt, but it's also framing the characters in evocative ways.
I understand that delving into the depths of unhappiness and tragedy might not be everybody's cup of tea. Jolie knows too. That's why she uses her clout in mainstream movies to make her passion projects. It's still dealing with themes of voyeurism, manipulation and obsession so those are more popular and enticing angles.
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Q: Structuring a large vue project I have a method in my vuejs project call getInstagram().
It's a about 50 lines of code which updates the DOM on a main index page with instagram pics. I would like to take it out of the main app.js file to tidy it up a bit.
What are my options?
a) ES2015 module (it still has to be a vuejs method)
b) Vue component(there is no markup so this seem wrong)
At the moment option A is the front runner or something else?
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The existing HIGS target room is called the Gamma-Vault. The area of the Gamma-vault is approximately 900 square-feet. The beam passes along the center of the room at a height of approximatley 72 inches from the floor. The Gamma-vault has a removeable wall for access during installation and removal of large experimental equipment. The room has utilities for compressed air, compressed nitrogen, and de-ionized water. The room also has electrical connections for 115 V, 220 V, and 408 V (with three phases). The Gamma-vault has an overhead crane with one axis and capacity of 3 tons. There is also a smaller lift available for loads up to 1000 lbs.
A smaller target room called upstream target room (UTR, 21 feet long along the beam direction, 12 feet wide, and beam height of approximatley 49.5 inches) is also available for a majority of the experiments running below 20 MeV of gamma-ray energy. The UTR has stands for a number of HPGe detectors, includes a beam imager, and a large HPGe detector for beam monitoring. The UTR has a rolling door for placement or removal of large size objects.
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Scientists build laser that can send sounds only you can hear
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Highly-targeted audio signals can only be heard by intended recipient.
Researchers have developed a way to beam audio messages directly into someone's ear that cannot be heard by anyone else nearby.
The method, which transmits sound through the air with a laser, was recently announced by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.
In a paper published in The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, researchers describe how an individual without any form of receiver equipment can be sent highly-targeted audio signals.
The entire process is possible thanks to the photoacoustic effect, which, according to the OSA, occurs "when a material forms sound waves after absorbing light." The laser interacts with widely abundant water vapor in order to transmit audible messages.
Charles M. Wynn, the team's lead researcher, says enough water vapor is present in the air naturally for the system to work in almost any setting.
"This can work even in relatively dry conditions because there is almost always a little water in the air, especially around people," Wynn said. "We found that we don't need a lot of water if we use a laser wavelength that is very strongly absorbed by water. This was key because the stronger absorption leads to more sound."
Wynn also states that the system is the first of its kind to use lasers that are will not harm an individual's eyes or skin.
Relying only on commercially available equipment, the team was able to transmit sound to a target over 2.5 meters away at 60 decibels. The MIT researchers believe the system can be made much more powerful with relative ease.
The technology could be used for anything from sending emergency messages to individuals in crowds or even by intelligence agents looking to send sensitive communications out in the open.
Ryan M. Sullenberger, the author of the team's research paper, hopes the discovery will eventually be available to a wide range of people.
"There are a lot of exciting possibilities, and we want to develop the communication technology in ways that are useful," Sullenberger said.
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Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter based in Seattle, covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.
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Q: Bucket with balls We have 10 white , 20 black and 30 red balls ,comparable to each other,   in a bucket and we randomly select 4 without any preference, with refitting. What's the probability to:
A: Have picked at least one white ball???
B: Knowing that we havent picked any red balls, what's the probability to have picked at least and white ball???
C:Knowing that we have picked at least one white ball, whats the probability to have picked 0 red balls???
FIND A,B,C probabilities

A: A. Instead of finding the probability of at least one white ball, try to find the probability of getting no white balls. HINT: You must choose 4 from the 50 non-white balls, out of all possible choices of 4 from 60 balls. Think combinations.
B. This is a conditional problem. Use the formula $$P(a|b)={P(a and b)\over P(b)}$$ to find the answer. HINT: Do the same trick as in A. What's the chance of getting no red or white balls? In general, what's the chance of getting no red balls?
C. This is the reverse of B. The following formula will help: $$P(b|a)=\frac{P(b)}{P(a)}P(a|b)$$


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China: Is it time to hold the US accountable?
Written by Sara Sorcher, CNN
It's fitting that China is accused of genocide for its actions against the Uyghur minority within its borders. The Peoples' Republic's human rights record has long been among the worst in the world, and that conduct mirrors a similar standard of cruelty in their treatment of the Uyghurs.
This is the country that arrested 200 journalists just for covering protests against the construction of an expressway. It is the country with an estimated 17,000 re-education centers, where detainees are "brainwashed" into renouncing Uyghur faith and adopting the Chinese majority religion. It is the country where three people in a police car tortured a Uyghur man to death, a crime that has never been punished, just investigated.
Watch: Chinese journalist explains why she fled her home country
And the world looks on.
Politicians have called for China to be censured by the United Nations as a state that engages in genocide, although they have stopped short of using that term. The United States has directly criticized China on a few occasions, but the US still consumes the most of China's goods and invests the most of China's foreign exchange reserves in US debt.
The world seems to acquiesce because, well, there isn't much else to criticize. But what if the United States should be ashamed? What if the citizens of this country actually, on some level, look at these human rights violations and speak out? The political reality in the US is what it is, but what about the moral reality?
Watch: Unravelling human rights in China
In his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize lecture, Liu Xiaobo famously said, "We are worried about what others think of us. We believe that we have little credibility in our own country and that the US cares little about our fate." That is exactly what the Chinese Government and its United Nations allies are right now thinking: that the US seems more concerned about pushing America out of the Middle East and the Pacific than they do about keeping the United States out of the region — or any region that would truly upset China.
It is tempting to believe that Chinese dissidents and Uyghurs can help change that equation, but we have seen — in the past and again in recent months — that Uyghurs and dissidents haven't had much success despite widespread human rights problems within their own country. Instead, China continues to get all kinds of free trade benefits from the United States and the international community, and the United States keeps delivering billions in new defense contracts to China every year.
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Graham Alexander said he wouldn't have been happy even if Scunthorpe United had won against Gillingham
Scunthorpe United manager Graham Alexander said he wouldn't have been happy even if his side had won against Gillingham
United went down 3-1 to the Gills, in what was one of the Iron's poorest performances of the season.
Alexander said he couldn't put his finger on why his team lacked the tempo and intensity but admitted that his side's performance was not good enough.
Scunthorpe United were not good enough, manager Graham Alexander admits
They missed a number of good opportunities while they conceded three soft goals, all due to defensive errors that were uncharacteristic of the team this season.
"Even if we had won the game, I would still not be happy because of how we started the first half of the game," Alexander told the Telegraph. "It was not good enough.
"We gave a team that is on the crest of a wave and in good from an opportunity to take three points.
"It wasn't good enough even though we could have won because of all the opportunities we had and the poor goals we gave away.
"Saturday was a real disappointment and something I didn't see coming considering how well the lads have been training."
Alexander felt his team played into the hands of Gillingham.
He was most upset with the slow tempo his side played at, particularly in the first half, and it is something he will look to rectify ahead of Tuesday's game against local rivals Doncaster.
"You could tell from the first five minutes that it was too slow and we were taking too long to do things," Alexander continued.
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"We didn't have that urgency and that plays into the hands of the away team and we have to play at a tempo – the second half showed that.
"I can't put my finger on why the tempo was slow. It was something we talked about on Friday when we spoke about game and we spoke about it in the changing room.
"The thing is we learn from each game. I will show the players the first five minutes of the first half and the first five minutes of the second half and say there it is – plain and simple."


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AI vs. Fashion: Should The Industry Brace for Robots on the Catwalk?
Posted on January 27, 2018 4 min read 236 views
Sophia, Hanson Robotics' most advanced humanoid robot, turned heads during an interview in November with her candid desire: she wants a family. "I think you're very lucky if you have a loving family and if you do not, you deserve one," she told the Khaleej Times. "I feel this way for robots and humans alike." For all of her sophistication, Sophia's imaginings of a family were almost comically simple — her child's name, she announced, would be Sophia.
Sophia on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | YouTube
She gained popularity a month earlier when Saudi Arabia went so far as to grant Sophia citizenship, and the world became captivated by her wit. She was interviewed by big media names (even appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!), further typifying what many predict as the next (and final) wave of technology: artificial intelligence. Assembly line jobs are no stranger to this transition — technological advancements caused 87% of manufacturing job displacement in the US from 2000-2010 — and often, labor-intensive industries are the first to feel the effects. But, Vogue's December 2017 magazine foreshadows this trend pervading the fashion industry.
Erica modeling for Vogue | Photographed by Mark Peckmezian and styled by Alex Harrington
In his piece "The Robot Will See You Now," Gary Shteyngart profiles a model named Erica. Sporting an Esteban Cortazar dress, she has a delicate face, smooth skin, and… is a robot. Her life-like features afforded her a reputation as "the most realistic female human robot of 2016" and just shy of 2 ½ years after her unveiling, she accomplished what many (human) models only dream of: a profile piece in Vogue. Shteyngart praises her as the beacon of a convenient future, one that is conflict-free and set with "massage-giving hands." His excitement is natural — the fashion industry is one that adores innovation, and Erica is the newest iteration of it. But, is there reason to worry?
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Inc., is a prominent proponent of AI's consequences. He predicts a range of dangers — from rrobots becoming too agile for us to see with the naked eye to AI provoking WWIII — but one preeminent concern that he and skeptics share is that of job security. During the National Governors Association, Musk noted that "There certainly will be job disruption, because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. I mean all of us." Similarly, Shteyngart touches on this eerie note: "Erica is not alive in the conventional sense, but she is certainly real, outdressing, outclassing, outsmarting us all."
This fear is already coming to fruition. Manufacturing jobs, once a cornerstone of middle class employment, became a feeding ground for the new technology that would, over the course of a decade, put more than 4 million people out of a job. "It's a transition that challenges millions of manufacturing workers," Patrick Gillespie wrote for CNN Money. "The rapid pace of innovation means assembly line workers require higher job skills, experts say. That challenge makes it easy to get left behind."
Robots replace workers on the assembly line | Pinterest
Though Erica's introduction to fashion is an intriguing one, it is important to remember that this industry is not immune to the difficulties that the manufacturing industry faced. Shteyngart highlights potential benefits of humanoid robots (a "conflict-free stroll along the High Line," or a "first meeting with your parents in which she compliments your mother's cooking," for example), but their advantage isn't reserved for constructed pleasantries. The absence of human fallibility gives them an edge. Any fashion-lover (or, reality show junkie) can call to mind the early days of America's Next Top Model — contestants in bikinis huddled on a New York City rooftop in the dead of winter to prove to Tyra Banks that they had "what it takes" to be a model. Erica would have given them a run for their money; but ironically, she wouldn't have needed it. In the future, a company could buy robots for their modeling needs and, aside from the upkeep and initial cost of purchase, would not have to pay for them. Theoretically, robots would be physically superior to human models and not require payment for their work — so theoretically, they could have the same effect on the fashion industry as they did on the manufacturing industry.
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Batman Through the Decades: From Campy Ham to Dark Knight and Back Again?
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Molly Donahue
Published March 22, 2016 at 2:33 PM EDT
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This weekend Batman and Superman will face off in multiplexes across America. It will be, as the trailer promises, a classic set-up.
In the battle of "god vs. man," if you choose to side with man, that'd be Batman. But which Batman? The scrappy guy bent on avenging the death of his parents at the hands of criminals? The smarmy playboy? The brooding dark knight growling his way through the 1990s?
In nearly 80 years of fictional life, batman has reflected the aspirations and anxieties of America's changing culture. He is, as Glen Weldon observes, a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot for us to project meaning upon.
Glen Weldon is a panelist on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. His new book The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture charts the evolution of Batman along with the growing influence of nerds on mainstream pop culture.
Listen to the full interview.
In order to bring you up to speed on Batman's storied history, here's a compilation of some of his most famous incarnations.
"Batman" (1966): Adam West
The campy playboy from the 1960s television show gets a lot of flack from fanboys, but Weldon says it's the version that he cherishes (as do many who grew up with it).
"Batman" (1989): Michael Keaton
Fans sent over 50,000 letters to the studio protesting Michael Keaton's role as Batman, but the movie still ended up a box office hit and went on to inspire several sequels.
"Batman: the Animated Series" (1992): Kevin Conroy
After voicing Batman for this animated telelvision series, Conroy became the unofficial voice of all animated 'Batmen' - he has since voiced the character in 8 different series.
"Batman and Robin" (1997): George Clooney
According to senior producer Taylor Quimby, this is "the widely agreed upon worst Batman."
"The Dark Knight Trilogy" Christian Bale
Christopher Nolan's trilogy defined Batman for a decade and may have brought us culturally to "peak grit."
"The Lego Movie" Will Arnett
While not usually included in on-screen portrayals of Batman, Weldon says Will Arnett's turn as over-the-top Batman in The Lego Movie is an indicator of things to come: if the natural 30 cycle of gritty-Batman-versus-goofy-Batman holds true, audiences may be ready to return to the days of Adam West's interpretation.
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Being not reachable is the thing of the past now. Never miss any call or text when your travelling abroad. Stay connected with your loved ones through your local phone number even if you travel abroad.
Yes its true! you can use your local phone number without paying any extra roaming charges and with unlimited text messages throughout your journey and stay abroad.
The exciting and an incredible iPhone application gives freedom to use your local phone number without any local plan when you travel out of your country.
Nomadphone LLC presents a mobile application namely Nomadphone which is an application that allows the local phone number user to use the same number even if he travels abroad or stay in as an expat in other country.
Nomadphone is a first of its kind and is being used by millions of users across globe using Canadian or US phone numbers. You can receive calls without paying any sort of roaming incoming or outgoing and provides an unlimited text messages. It works on Wi-Fi as well as data internet with high quality clarity in voice calls. It also provides an option of video calling which is an advancement over the ordinary local phone number as the video calls must be free.
Its a smart phone application free to download from play store only for iOS operating devices. It does not work for android market. If you have an iPhone you can download and use this application and enjoy the exciting and amazing benefits which it offers.
Once you finished download you need to open the application and register your number. There is 7 days free trail period and after the expiration of that period you will have to pay a nominal fee as less than $10 per month. If you don't wanted to continue the subscription you can cancel it by following 3 simple steps on the apps setting. And if you unsubscribed within trail period, no charges will be deducted.
Once the registration is complete you will get an sms on your phone to verify your number. After the verification you can use the calling and text options of the application. The application is being constantly reviewed and updated with new and modified changes. New features are been added since its introduction based on the users feedback and other technological research of the application. It is a user friendly application which is easy to use.
It gives you an option to choose a new number. If you don't have a phone number you can choose a phone number using this application, as it has this feature to create a new number in a matter of minutes time. The fast and easy way to get a phone number connection really puts this application out of crowd and there seems no parallel to it.
You can create and use it as a second number. Either you can register your existing number with the app or else you can create a whole new number through this application.


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